Hosted by Brendan Ray · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 35 episodes
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This podcast looks at the history of the city of Ottawa Ontario, since the last ice age to modern day! Visit our website at ottawahistoryhub.com.
Brendan Ray hosts Ottawa History Hub, a history show with 35 episodes published.
In this episode of the Ottawa History Hub Podcast we explore the life and legend of Big Joe Mufferaw, born Joseph Favre dit Montferrand in 1805. A real historical figure, Montferrand became renowned in 19th‑century Montr
The episode examines the rise of the Shiners, an Irish-dominated criminal gang led by Peter Aylin Following the completion of the Rideau Canal in 1832, thousands of unemployed Irish labourers were left desperate for work
This episode explores the life and impact of Bradish Billings, one of the most influential early settlers in the Ottawa region and namesake of Billings Bridge. After an early failure as a lumberman, Billings married Lami
In early Bytown, public safety emerged long before formal civic institutions. Responsibility for order initially fell to Lt. Col. John By, overseeing canal construction. His sappers acted as de facto police and firefight
Nicholas Sparks was an Irish immigrant who became one of Bytown’s leading citizen. Leveraging connections with the Wrights, Sparks was the richest man in Bytown throughout the life of the settlement. He married into the
The episode examines the fur trade’s continued role in the early 19th‑century Ottawa Valley. Though dominated by lumber, the region still relied on furs as a seasonal income source for settlers and Indigenous hunters. Af
We’ve been using terms like Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, Protestant and Methodist so far, and in this episode we break down those terms to discuss what the different religious groups of early Bytown were and how the
This episode walks through Bytown in its first decade. Starting in Wrightstown, we cross the Union Bridge to Richmond Landing, then into Upper Bytown, the military precinct, Lowertown, New Edinburgh, and Janeville, looki
Thomas MacKay was a Scottish mason, industrialist, politician, and founder of New Edinburgh, among other things. He helped to build the Rideau Canal and invested his earnings in transforming Bytown from a work camp into
Timberrrrrrrr! Lumber was the first industry in the Ottawa area after the fur trade and agriculture. How the different trees were used and brought to port was an integral part of the development of Bytown as a town, with
George Ramsay, the ninth Earl of Dalhousie and former Governor General of the Canadas played an important role in the development of Ottawa, by patronising John By, feuding with John LeBreton, and making space for turnin
In this episode, we review a diary of a traveller from Bytown going on a trip south to Kingston, through the Rideau Valley. Along the way, he and his companions meet some of the characters who call the area home.
The land of the Rideau River and the Ottawa once belonged exclusively to the Algonquin, though several other Anishinaabe traders would travel through the area as well. But a price was paid for the land, and it was opened
The Rideau Waterway runs more than 200 kms from Lake Ontario to the Ottawa River, bypassing the Saint Laurence River, and allowing the British to access the Great Lakes without the dangers posed by the River’s chokepoint
There are few if any individuals who have had a greater impact on the settlement that would become Ottawa than Lt. Col. John By. This episode is a biography of the English engineer who is credited with the creation of th
In this episode, we conclude the war part of the War of 1812, setting up the diminished status of the Indigenous allies, despite their heroic participation in the war, and establishing the justification for the Rideau Ca
The War of 1812 was a central event in the foundation of the Canadas. It also served to settle the American War of Independence and bring a political norm to North America that there were two distinct countries, rather t
Philemon Wright was the founder of Hull, the first settlement in the Ottawa area that could be called "urban". Migrating from Massachusetts in the winter of 1800, he and his family migrated the shoals of the Lower Canada
In this episode, we look at the circle of settlement closing in around what would become Ottawa. In the south by Loyalists, and from the east by way of Montreal.
The Constitution of 1791 divided the great province of Quebec in two. Upriver was the creation of Upper Canada, and downriver was the new province of Lower Canada. There were new systems of governance and voting, that wo
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